The file appears before you as an scroll of red-tinged chrome, with just
the hint of gold filigree and circuit patterns along the edges. Settled into
your private dataspace, you insert the passcode you purchased from that filthy
little dealer into your deck and upload it, where it appears as a small iron
key with a heart-shape on the end of the handle. With a touch, the key dissapears
and the scroll unlocks, folding out origami-style into a lap-sized book,
hotlinks smoldering on the left-hand index...

The Fellini Manual appeared in the occult underground of London in
2014, and was quickly labelled as pornography by the authorities and knowledgable
occultists. Named after the author, one Arturo Fellini (a nom de plume) and
based loosely on the writings of Aleister Crowley, the Fellini Manual had
only a very limited run, straight-to-optical-chip, a method well ahead of
its time, especially for the book-loving magic crowd.

The content of the Manual was so atrocious, however, that in 2016 it was
officially banned in Great Britain, possession of it being deemed a magical
felony no matter the talents or intent of the individual. The Lord Protector's
agents collected and destroyed most of the books, keeping one copy under
lock and key, while a prominent Madame is thought to hold another, but approximately
ten are in unknown locations. Rumor has it that very London occult societies,
the Vatican's black library, and a few eccentrics are all interested in obtaining
an original copy. Inferior copies have long circulated in the dim back corners
of the Matrix, but today the Fellini Manual is considered more of an urban
myth than an actual magical work, or at best an expensive pillow-book with
an overblown reputation by those who have seen the inferior copies. Due to
the age of the code and the security encryptions on it, these copies lack
any useful magical information, although they may serve as inspiration for
spells or rituals involving sex and magic.

Unlike most other magical texts it has a helpful index and search function.

The Manual is a mixture of text, diagrams, photographs, and video material,
most of it being in the triple-X bracket. The author begins with a simple
treatise (featuring multiple illustrations and six five-minute videos) on
using various sexual techniques to center oneself while performing a magical
act, such as summoning a spirit, casting a spell, or participating in ritual
magic (for the hours-long rituals required by the latter, the author includes
certain tantric exercises, a calisthenics regimen, and certain pharmeceutical
aids).

Fellini then delves into the concept of the Scarlet Woman. Something of a
misnomer, the Scarlet Woman in this case is an adept of any gender that is
submissive to and dominated by a magician according to Fellini's instruction,
as given in the manual. Through repeated degradation and abuse, the Scarlet
Woman, who must willingly go along with the process, although Fellini gives
certain drugs and practices that can make it easier, becomes a receptacle
of power for the magician. Individuals may be surprised at the levels to
which the domineering magician (called by Fellini "the magus") must go to
properly defile the submissive, including tattooing, branding, implantation
of foreign objects beneath the skin, piercing, and of course various sexual
acts, some enhanced by magic.

The Fellini Manual describes the Scarlet Woman as a willing partner for ritual
sex for purposes of Centering, whose inherent adept powers empower the magus
as they cast their spell. Ideally, the Scarlet Woman possesses sufficient
magical ability to join in the ritual and aid the magus further.

The process for making a Scarlet Woman (who may be of any gender) is typically
undertaken only by toxic shamans, petro houngans and mambos, and corrupted
mages, because it means reducing an adept to little more than a tool, controlled
and corrupted by demeaning sexual practices, drugs, and physical and mental
abuse.

When a magus finds a suitable candidate, they must, by force or charisma,
begin a sexual relationship with them, leading them by turns through greater
and greater acts of submission. Particularly willful individuals are dulled
through drugs and magical enchantment. The process culminates in a ceremonial
initiation, where the unfortunate Scarlet Woman undergoes an Oath to serve
the magus and submits to being branded with the magus' name on their inner
thigh. From this point on, the Scarlet Woman is on the Via Donna Scarlatta,
the Way of the Scarlet Woman, rather than their previous Adept Way.

Once initiated in this manner, a Scarlet Women can regain their self-confidence
and escape their status only through a supreme act of will, and subsequent
psychological treatment. Former Scarlet Women retain any abilities they gained
while a Scarlet Woman, but may choose a new Way as they reconstruct their
identity.

Via Donna Scarlatta
Adepts on this path may only learn the Aid Spell, Astral Perception, Improved
Ability(Ritual Sex, etc.), Living Focus and Magical Power abilities (a Scarlet
Woman is an exception to the normal rule that Magical Power may only be taken
initially at character generation). The Scarlet Woman serves to aid their
magus by learning and performing sexual acts for purposes of Centering, especially
using their Aid Spell power. A Scarlet Woman may only learn the Centering,
Cognition, Infusion, Somatic Control and Virtuoso metamagics on their own,
although they may learn any their magus teaches them.

A Scarlet Woman is an ideal and willing subject to practice blood sacrifice
on, or to serve a vessel for possession by a spirit, particularly a corrupt
spirit such as spirits of Erzulie Ge-Rouge.